Configure webserver with nginx

Today we study an example of using Ansible to configure nginx.

We create an Ansible playbook named web-notls.yml.

Type the following commands:

We need to extra files.

1) files/nginx.conf

2) templates/index.html.j2

Then, we run ansible-playbook and got an error:

Why is that?

After running 

The output is

If we run 

It is found that 

httpd     ....................TCP *:80 (LISTEN)

Port 80 was used by httpd.

After we stopped httpd, the error disappeared.

Then we type "localhost" in a web browser, we got the following words printed:

nginx, configured by Ansible

If you can see this, Ansible successfully installed nginx.

Ansible managed